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Author of the internationally famous blog, Orangette, Molly Wizenberg recounts a life with the kitchen at its center. From her mother's pound cake, a staple of summer picnics during her childhood in Oklahoma, to the eggs she cooked for her father during the weeks before his death, food and memories are intimately entwined.

How to use the recipes in this book --
A place to start --
The baker in the family --
In need of calming --
The whole messy decade --
An uncalculating science --
Better with chocolate --
The dark horse --
A brood of seven --
La Boule Miche --
A strange sort of coming of age --
The hardball stage --
A personal chronology in Christmas cookies --
The right answer to everything --
Quite that magnificent --
What France would taste like --
The best of all possible worlds --
High points --
Heaven --
9:00 a.m. Sunday --
Italian grotto eggs --
The mottling --
Whatever you love, you are --
Summer of change --
Pretty perfect --
Promise to share --
Whith cream on top --
Happiness --
Baby steps --
Like wildflowers --
Delicious in its way --
Rough going --
Bonus points --
Herbivores only --
Special game --
The diamonds --
Sugarhouse --
The change thing --
Bonne femme --
So much better --
A big deal --
Freeze frame --
Pickling plant --
So easy --
I have learned not to worry --
Winning hearts and minds.

Very fun read!

This was a really fun book to read. It's so much more than a cookbook since you get all the stories behind them. It was neat to see why these certain recipes were important to Molly, how they fit into her life, and what she is reminded of when cooking. It makes you think about the stories behind your...Read more...

This was a really fun book to read. It's so much more than a cookbook since you get all the stories behind them. It was neat to see why these certain recipes were important to Molly, how they fit into her life, and what she is reminded of when cooking. It makes you think about the stories behind your favorite recipies. I wish there were a ton of books like this out there!